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Movies that feel likeGhosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple women. On the eve of his younger brother Paul's wedding, Connor's mockery of love proves a real buzz-kill for everyone - including his childhood crush, Jenny, the one woman who always seemed immune to his considerable charms. Later that night, he gets a wake-up call from the ghost of his late Uncle Wayne, the hard-partying, legendary ladies' man who was Connor's mentor. Uncle Wayne has an urgent message which he delivers through three ghosts who guide Connor on an eye-opening tour of his romantic past, present and future. Along the way, they attempt to discern whether he will ever be able to change his ways -- and if there is any hope of him finding true love.

If you loved Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, the closest films we have are 13 Going on 30 (2004), Midnight in Paris (2011) and Gregory's Girl (1980). All three share Ghosts of Girlfriends Past's romantic and witty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Mermaid (2016).

🍅 27% Rotten Tomatoes★ 5.8 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Mark Watersromanticwittyplayfuldreamlikewistful
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13 Going on 30
2004 · dir. Gary Winick
🍅 65%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romanceNetflix

Common ground: photographer

The difference: Reviewed even better

After total humiliation at her thirteenth birthday party, Jenna Rink wants to just hide until she's thirty. Thanks to some magic wishing dust, Jenna's prayer has been answered. With a knockout body, a fabulous wardrobe, an athlete boyfriend, a dream job, and superstar friends, this can't be a better life. But soon Jenna realizes that adult life isn’t as easy as she hoped for.

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Midnight in Paris
2011 · dir. Woody Allen
🍅 93%★ 7.6fantasy · comedy · romance

The same mix in both: romance, then wit

While on a trip to Paris with his fiancée's family, a nostalgic screenwriter finds himself mysteriously going back to the 1920s every day at midnight.

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Gregory's Girl
1980 · dir. Bill Forsyth
🍅 95%★ 7.1comedy · romance

One thread runs through both: first love

The difference: Lighter on dream logic

A teenager falls hard for the female soccer player who has replaced him on the team and attempts to pursue her.

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Clueless
1995 · dir. Amy Heckerling
★ 6.9comedy · romanceParamount+Starz

Playful and wistful in the same breath

Shallow, rich and socially successful Cher is at the top of her Beverly Hills high school's pecking scale. Seeing herself as a matchmaker, Cher first coaxes two teachers into dating each other. Emboldened by her success, she decides to give hopelessly klutzy new student Tai a makeover. When Tai becomes more popular than she is, Cher realizes that her disapproving ex-stepbrother was right about how misguided she was -- and falls for him.

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The Mermaid
2016 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 95%★ 6.2comedy · fantasy · romance

Dreamlike romance, and it commits to that

When Xuan's real estate project threatens the home of mermaids, Shan is sent to stop him. When they fall in love, he is encouraged to cancel the project. However, he must save them from bigger danger.

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American Pie
1999 · dir. Paul Weitz
🍅 62%★ 7comedy · romanceParamount+

Comedy with a pulse of romance, in both cases

At a high-school party, four friends find that losing their collective virginity isn't as easy as they had thought. But they still believe that they need to do so before college. To motivate themselves, they enter a pact to all "score" by their senior prom.

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The Invention of Lying
2009 · dir. Ricky Gervais
🍅 56%★ 6.4comedy · fantasy · romance

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.

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Just Like Heaven
2005 · dir. Mark Waters
🍅 54%★ 6.7comedy · romance · fantasy

The same hand behind both of them: Mark Waters

Shortly after David Abbott moves into his new San Francisco digs, he has an unwelcome visitor on his hands: winsome Elizabeth Masterson, who asserts that the apartment is hers -- and promptly vanishes. When she starts appearing and disappearing at will, David thinks she's a ghost, while Elizabeth is convinced she's alive.

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When We First Met
2018 · dir. Ari Sandel
🍅 45%★ 6.4comedy · romance · fantasyNetflix

Playful romance in both cases

Using a magical photo booth that sends him back in time, Noah relives the night he met Avery over and over, trying to persuade her to fall for him.

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Shallow Hal
2001 · dir. Peter Farrelly
🍅 49%★ 6comedy · fantasy · romance

Comedy built on dream logic, twice over

After taking his dying father's advice, Hal dates only the embodiments of female physical perfection. But that all changes after Hal has an unexpected run-in with self-help guru Tony Robbins. Intrigued by Hal's shallowness, Robbins hypnotizes him into seeing the beauty that exists even in the least physically appealing women. Hal soon falls for Rosemary, but he doesn't realize that his gorgeous girlfriend is actually a 300-pound-not-so-hottie.

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Practical Magic
1998 · dir. Griffin Dunne
🍅 31%★ 6.4romance · fantasy · comedyMax

Both lean on romance more than on fantasy

Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.

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It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010 · dir. Anna Boden
🍅 58%★ 7.1comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on wistfulness more than on romance

The difference: Played as drama first

A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.

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